# Dear Galatia - The Book of Galatians

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 22 Apr 2024, 12 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 201. Join us in today's episode as we explore Paul's powerful letter to the Galatians, where he urges them to stay true to the Gospel. Hear how Paul defends his mission and challenges the community to live by the Spirit, not by human laws. Discover the importance of faith, freedom in Christ, and loving others in this inspiring message. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[0:00] Speaker 1: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness,
[0:07] Speaker 1: and self-control. Galatians 5.22 Dear God, there is nothing good
[0:13] Speaker 1: in us apart from you. Thank you for giving us
[0:16] Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit and reminding us through the book of
[0:19] Speaker 1: Galatians how to walk in the Spirit. Forgive us when
[0:23] Speaker 1: we act in our flesh and do things that don't
[0:25] Speaker 1: please you. Fill us today and help us bear fruit
[0:29] Speaker 1: through your Spirit.
[0:30] Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, amen.
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[1:00] Speaker 3: Dear Galatia, In our last story, a council met to
[1:13] Speaker 3: discuss if Gentiles were required to be circumcised.
[1:16] Speaker 4: To be saved. The decision was no. Meanwhile, Paul continues
[1:21] Speaker 4: to preach and to stay in touch with churches. In
[1:24] Speaker 4: this story, the following is a summary of a letter
[1:27] Speaker 4: from Paul to the churches in Galatia so that they
[1:31] Speaker 4: may understand their freedom in Christ and how to live
[1:35] Speaker 4: by the Spirit and not by the law, as inspired
[1:39] Speaker 4: by Galatians.
[1:43] Speaker 1: Hey everyone, it's Julianne Thompson, guest hosting for Julia Jeffress Sadler,
[1:47] Speaker 1: here to welcome you back to the Kids Bible in
[1:49] Speaker 1: Ear podcast.
[1:51] Speaker 2: Today we are going to hear.
[1:53] Speaker 1: All about a letter that Paul wrote to some of
[1:55] Speaker 1: his churches and And we're even going to learn how
[1:58] Speaker 1: to make fruit.
[1:59] Speaker 4: Huh?
[2:00] Speaker 2: That's right. Listen close.
[2:05] Speaker 4: Dear churches in Galatia, I am confused that you have
[2:09] Speaker 4: abandoned God so quickly when you know that there is
[2:12] Speaker 4: no other gospel than the gospel of Christ. So why
[2:16] Speaker 4: are you twisting it? Whose approval are you seeking, man's
[2:20] Speaker 4: or God's? You cannot please both God and man. For
[2:25] Speaker 4: if I kept trying to please people, I could no
[2:28] Speaker 4: longer call myself a servant of God. Friends, I do
[2:33] Speaker 4: not want you to think the words that I am
[2:35] Speaker 4: writing to you are from me, for the gospel does
[2:38] Speaker 4: not come from humans. What I am writing to you
[2:41] Speaker 4: now is from God, and it is in His power
[2:45] Speaker 4: that I write. You all know my testimony. The man
[2:49] Speaker 4: I used to be, I slandered the church. I tried
[2:52] Speaker 4: too hard to pursue my father's traditions. That is until
[2:56] Speaker 4: God called me out of that and revealed himself to me.
[3:01] Speaker 4: He called me to preach to the Gentiles, so I
[3:05] Speaker 4: obeyed and traveled to many different places to preach the
[3:09] Speaker 4: good news to Gentiles. They sang praises to God for
[3:12] Speaker 4: the work that he had done through me. Fourteen years later,
[3:17] Speaker 4: I went back to Jerusalem with Barnabas and Titus. I
[3:21] Speaker 4: went and preached to the leaders and Gentiles in Jerusalem
[3:26] Speaker 4: I did not want to live my life in vain,
[3:29] Speaker 4: so I continued to wholeheartedly pursue the Lord and His
[3:33] Speaker 4: plan for me. God continued to work through me in Jerusalem,
[3:38] Speaker 4: even though there was some against me. A man named
[3:41] Speaker 4: Peter came to where I was in Antioch, and I
[3:44] Speaker 4: confronted him to his face. I confronted him because he
[3:48] Speaker 4: had been leading other Jews astray and was hanging out
[3:51] Speaker 4: with the Gentiles more than he should have. I said
[3:55] Speaker 4: to him in front of his friends, How can you
[3:57] Speaker 4: call yourself a Jew when you walk around living like
[4:01] Speaker 4: a Gentile but expecting other Gentiles to follow Jewish law
[4:05] Speaker 4: and customs? As Jews, we are to die to the
[4:09] Speaker 4: law and live for God. We are to be put
[4:13] Speaker 4: to death to ourselves just as he was crucified for
[4:16] Speaker 4: our sins. If we do not do this, then Christ's
[4:20] Speaker 4: death would be in vain. You foolish people! What spirit
[4:24] Speaker 4: has possessed you? You saw our Lord killed, but you
[4:28] Speaker 4: have not experienced the spirit? Your walk began with the spirit,
[4:33] Speaker 4: and now you're trying to take matters into your own hands.
[4:37] Speaker 4: Does God perform miracles by your good works or by
[4:40] Speaker 4: belief in his word? Understand what I am saying to you.
[4:44] Speaker 4: You must have faith as Abraham did, and you will
[4:47] Speaker 4: not be cursed like the one who believes in justification
[4:51] Speaker 4: by works. Before we came to faith, we were held
[4:56] Speaker 4: captive by the law, and then faith unlocked our chains.
[5:01] Speaker 4: We are all God's children. There is no Jew, nor Gentile,
[5:05] Speaker 4: nor male, nor female. We are all one in Christ.
[5:10] Speaker 4: I am concerned that you have not been listening to
[5:13] Speaker 4: my words to you. Have I been doing all this
[5:16] Speaker 4: for you for nothing? I am begging you to follow
[5:20] Speaker 4: Christ just as I do, so that the gospel may
[5:23] Speaker 4: be preached to all the nations. Don't make this a
[5:27] Speaker 4: waste of time for me. Don't lose heart. Slavery is
[5:31] Speaker 4: no longer your home. You have been made free in
[5:34] Speaker 4: Christ Jesus so that you can go out and proclaim
[5:37] Speaker 4: his good news to the poor and broken. Though you
[5:41] Speaker 4: are free, do not take advantage of that freedom and
[5:44] Speaker 4: use it to please your flesh, but love others. For
[5:48] Speaker 4: a man reaps what he sows. So sow to please God,
[5:52] Speaker 4: not yourselves. This is how you live according to the Spirit.
[5:58] Speaker 4: So I tell you, live by following the Spirit. The
[6:02] Speaker 4: Spirit gives love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
[6:08] Speaker 4: and self-control. My prayer is that the grace of the
[6:13] Speaker 4: Lord Jesus Christ will be with your spirit. Amen.
[6:24] Speaker 1: All right, let's unpack this letter. Paul wrote the book
[6:28] Speaker 1: of Galatians for the churches he visited, most likely on
[6:31] Speaker 1: his first missionary journey in the territory of Galatia. These
[6:36] Speaker 1: churches came about through the preaching and teaching of Paul.
[6:40] Speaker 1: But since then, some other Jewish leaders had come with
[6:44] Speaker 1: a different message, a message that just wasn't true. They
[6:49] Speaker 1: were telling the Gentiles in these churches that they had
[6:52] Speaker 1: to follow the laws of Moses in order to be saved.
[6:56] Speaker 1: This was upsetting to the Gentiles in the church. And
[7:00] Speaker 1: once Paul heard about it, he sat down to write
[7:03] Speaker 1: this letter. If this were to happen today, I wonder
[7:07] Speaker 1: if Paul would have jumped on a live stream to
[7:09] Speaker 1: set them straight. I guess in 48 AD, a letter
[7:13] Speaker 1: would have to do. Paul explained to these churches the
[7:16] Speaker 1: difference between living your life to make people happy and
[7:20] Speaker 1: living your life to make God happy.
[7:23] Speaker 2: He said you can't do both.
[7:25] Speaker 1: There will be times in your life when you do
[7:27] Speaker 1: something because it makes other people think you're great. People
[7:32] Speaker 1: give you awards, clap for you, and tell others what
[7:34] Speaker 1: a hero you are. Paul says that's not what we
[7:37] Speaker 1: should live for. Instead, our only focus should be to
[7:41] Speaker 1: please God. For the churches in Galatia, people were saying
[7:45] Speaker 1: the opposite of what God said was true. And the
[7:48] Speaker 1: Jews were tempted to believe people over God's word.
[7:52] Speaker 2: This is dangerous.
[7:54] Speaker 1: Always check what anyone tells you with what God's word says.
[7:59] Speaker 1: If it says something different, you know it's a false teaching.
[8:03] Speaker 1: Paul then explained how these Jews needed to die to
[8:07] Speaker 1: the law and live for God. That means that they
[8:11] Speaker 1: were not required by God to keep every law perfectly
[8:14] Speaker 1: anymore because Jesus had already saved them. They could go
[8:20] Speaker 1: on trying to do things on their own and simply
[8:22] Speaker 1: have faith in what Jesus did on the cross. Otherwise,
[8:25] Speaker 1: Paul said, why did Jesus die?
[8:28] Speaker 2: For nothing?
[8:30] Speaker 1: He died so we could be free from having to
[8:32] Speaker 1: do it all. He died so he could enjoy a
[8:36] Speaker 1: friendship with him and his free gift of heaven. Then
[8:40] Speaker 1: Paul went so far to say that we are not Jews, Gentiles,
[8:44] Speaker 1: males or females. We are all one in Christ Jesus.
[8:49] Speaker 1: We are all the same. In chapter 5 of Galatians,
[8:53] Speaker 1: Paul gives us some very important words in a passage
[8:56] Speaker 1: you may be familiar with.
[8:58] Speaker 2: He tells us what it.
[8:59] Speaker 1: Means to keep in step with the Spirit or walk
[9:02] Speaker 1: by the Spirit. Because you see, each and every day
[9:06] Speaker 1: when we get out of bed, we are tempted to
[9:08] Speaker 1: live in our strength. Or as Paul says, in our flesh.
[9:12] Speaker 1: Our flesh is just the earthly body that.
[9:14] Speaker 2: We live in.
[9:15] Speaker 1: The one that was born into sin. Our flesh is
[9:19] Speaker 1: the part of us that wants to be selfish, impatient, prideful,
[9:23] Speaker 1: and unforgiving. But because we have the actual living spirit
[9:26] Speaker 1: of God in us, we don't have to let our
[9:29] Speaker 1: flesh decide how we live. Instead, we can pray and
[9:33] Speaker 1: ask the Holy Spirit to come alive in us and
[9:35] Speaker 1: to help us.
[9:36] Speaker 2: Live in a way that pleases God.
[9:39] Speaker 1: In other words, the Holy Spirit lives our lives for us,
[9:44] Speaker 1: giving us the strength to make fruit. Now, of course,
[9:48] Speaker 1: we're not talking about apples or oranges or kiwis.
[9:52] Speaker 2: This fruit is much better.
[9:54] Speaker 1: Do you know what type of fruit or good things
[9:57] Speaker 1: the Spirit makes in us? We find it in Galatians 5.22.
[10:02] Speaker 1: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness,
[10:09] Speaker 1: and self-control. So next time you're having a hard time
[10:13] Speaker 1: loving someone or finding joy, being patient, kind, good, faithful,
[10:19] Speaker 1: or gentle, remember that you can't do it on your
[10:22] Speaker 1: own flesh.
[10:23] Speaker 2: You need Jesus.
[10:26] Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me today. Remember, the Holy Spirit is
[10:30] Speaker 1: in you and working through you. Tell him you need
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